Clothes-hanger.



I PATENTED APR. 18; 1905.

J.. A. BRYANT. CLOTHES HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2 5 1904.

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Patented April 18, 1905.

JOHN ALEXANDER BRYANT, OF OSCEOLA, IOWA.

' CLOTH ES-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 787,559, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed April 25, 1904. Serial No. 204,721.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN ALEXANDER BRY- ANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Osceola, in the county of Clark and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Clothes-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a coat-hanger of simple, durable, and inexpensive construction which is adapted for use in hanging a coat on it and at the same time support trousers or dress-skirts on the cross-bar, which is inside of the coat when it is upon the hanger, so that the skirt or trousers will be protected from dust or dirt to a very large extent, and which will keep the shape of the trousers or skirt perfectly when thelhanger is supported by the ordinary hoo A further object is to provide a coathanger made of a single piece of wire so twisted as to forma hanger which will cause the shoulders of the coat which is placed over it to be kept in shape and prevent it from wrinkling.

A further and very material object is to provide a hanger in which there is a maximum amount of strength with a minimum amount of material used in the construction of the device.

My invention consists in certaindetails in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in perspective the preferable form of the hanger. Fig. 2' is a detail portion of the hook from the upper portion of the hanger. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the hanger, cut on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referrin to the accompanyin drawings, I have usecI the reference-numeral 10 to indi-- cate the hook portion forming the top of the hanger 11, formed by connecting a piece of straight wire and bending it together so that the middle portion of the wire as bent comes at the point 11, which is the free end of the hook. The wire is then bent over into the position shown in Fig. 1, forming the hook 10. The parts of the wires which are in engagement with each other after having been bent at the point 11 are bent at the point 12 and extend substantially at right angles to the body portion 13 of the hook and are of meeting at 19, where they are twisted around the lower portion of the body 13 of the loop at 20, and thus the complete hanger is formed, so that it is adapted for use in the manner disclosed in the objectsthat is, the coat and vest are placed over the upper portion of the hanger and the trou'sers or skirt are placed over the cross-bar 16.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1. In a device of the class described, a hook, a frame having two parts diverging from their point of attachment to the hook outwardly, bent downwardly at their extreme outer ends, a cross-bar connecting the ends of the frame with each other, constructed by twisting the parts of the wire together.

2. A coat-hanger, comprising a hook, a frame having two parts extending outwardly and downwardly from the hook, a cross-bar constructed by twisting two wires together and connecting the ends of the frame.

7 JOHN ALEXANDER BRYANT.

Witnesses:

R. M. Lnwrs, H. J. MCGARTNEY. 

